Modern Law Revolution - Work-Life Blend

In this episode we welcome back the amazing JP Box, co-host of this podcast and today’s special guest. JP is a lawyer, entrepreneur, business owner, author, and consultant. That’s a lot of things to be. So how does JP stay sane? Work-life blend.

Work-life balance is just that – a balancing act. Invariably pitting one against the other in the pursuit of having it all. Traditionally, employers and employees have been preoccupied with the well-intentioned but misguided attempt to separate life from work. But what if work and life were all blended together into one harmonious ball of twine? This is precisely what JP proposes in his book The Millennial Lawyer: How Your Firm Can Motivate and Retain Young Associates. Work-life blend has become a watchword for millennial workers. It’s about working smarter and, as a result, more productively. And guess what, the pandemic has been a great crash course on how to accomplish this.

To explain what work-life blend looks like, JP and co-host Erika Holmes, break the concept down into five freedoms:

• Freedom to decide when and where work happens
• Freedom to bring your life into work. (Dog friendly office anybody?)
• Freedom to think of a workspace as a living space and vice versa (think about the Google-fication of workspaces.)
• Freedome to work, think, and connect digitally.
• The freedom to unplug. Figuratively and literally.